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When I was in college – there were only 25 letters in the English Alphabet then – we had to take a couple of semesters of music history. One of the choices was American music of the early 20th century, and the prof was a big fan of John and Alan Lomax, who recorded several of the works in this collection. The music they captured up in lonely hollers and on front porches rang so true it made the hairs on your neck rise – and at the time, I had very long hair. They and their colleagues have always been kind of heroes of mine, and the fact that a government dealing with Depression and approaching war would finance such a cultural quest has inspired me when I feel that governments are irredeemably wrong-headed.

Launched in August, 2000, RexBlog.com is the personal blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., a customer media and marketing services company founded in 1991 in Nashville. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of SmallBusiness.com.(...)